Oberon VS Som

Compare Oberon vs Som and see what are their differences.

Oberon

Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger (by rochus-keller)

Som

Parser, code model, navigable browser and VM for the SOM Smalltalk dialect (by rochus-keller)
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Oberon Som
76 8
415 22
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7.4 0.0
15 days ago over 1 year ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Oberon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Oberon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.

Som

Posts with mentions or reviews of Som. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-26.
  • Making Smalltalk on a Raspberry Pi (2020)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023
    > Smalltalkish

    Have a look at the SOM dialect which is successfully used in education: http://som-st.github.io/

    Here is an implementation in C++ which runs on LuaJIT: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/

    > unfortunately out of print book Smalltalk 80: the language and its implementation is commonly recommended

    I assume you know this link: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....

    Here is an implementation in C++ and Lua: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk

  • Do transpilers just use a lot of string manipulation and concatenation to output the target language?
    4 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 27 May 2023
  • Ask HN: Admittedly Useless Side Projects?
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2022
    - https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/ Parser, code model, interpreter and navigable browser for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 v2 sources and virtual image file

    - https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ Parser, code model, navigable browser and VM for the SOM Smalltalk dialect

    - https://github.com/rochus-keller/Simula A Simula 67 parser written in C++ and Qt

    > do you regret those endeavours?

    No, not in any way; the projects were very entertaining and gave me interesting insights.

  • Ask HN: Recommendation for general purpose JIT compiler
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 May 2022
    If your DSL is statically typed then I recommend that you have a look at the Mono CLR; it's compatible with the ECMA-335 standard and the IR (CIL) is well documented, even with secondary literature.

    If your DSL is dynamically typed I recommend LuaJIT; the bytecode is lean and documented (not as good as CIL though). LuaJIT also works well with statically typed languages, but Mono is faster in the latter case. Even if it was originally built for Lua any compiler can generate LuaJIT bytecode.

    Both approaches are lean (Mono about 8 MB, LuaJIT about 1 MB), general purpose, available on many platforms and work well (see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/).

  • When is Smalltalk's speed an issue?
    2 projects | /r/smalltalk | 21 Feb 2022
    At the latest when you run a benchmark suite like Are-we-fast-yet; here are some measurment results: http://software.rochus-keller.info/are-we-fast-yet_crystal_lua_node_som_pharo_i386_results_2020-12-29.pdf. See also https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk.
  • LuaJIT for backend?
    6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 2 Jan 2022
    LuaJIT is well suited as a backend/runtime environment for custom languages; I did it several times (see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk, https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/, https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/). I also implemented a bit of infrastructure to ease the reuse: https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools. LuaJIT has some limitations though; if you require closures you have to know that the corresponding LuaJIT FNEW bytecode is not yet supported by the JIT, i.e. switches to the interpreter; as a work-around I implemented my own closures; LuaJIT also doesn't support multi-threading, but co-routines; and there is no debugger, and the infrastructure to implement one has limitations (i.e. performance is low when running to breakpoints). For most of my projects this was no issue. Recently I switched to CIL/Mono for my Oberon+ implementation which was a good move. But still I consider LuaJIT a good choice if you can cope with the mentioned limitations. The major advantage of LuaJIT is the small footprint and impressive performance for dynamic languages.
  • Optimizing an old interpreted language: where to begin?
    3 projects | /r/Compilers | 4 May 2021
    One option is to leverage someone else's JIT: you could, for example, rewrite the interpreter to transpile to Lua source, which is then run in LuaJIT. There's a Smalltalk dialect which does this successfully; the Lua version runs in 1/12th the time of the C interpreted version. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som You can use LuaJIT's FFI to call back into the Stunt server, or else just rewrite it completely in Lua --- large parts of the Stunt server will just go away in a native Lua implementation (e.g. the object database is just a table). Javascript would be another candidate for this.
  • JITted lang which is faster than C?
    6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 12 Feb 2021
    This is a completely different kind of measurement; unfortunately this is not clear enough from my Readme. I wanted to find out, how well my naive Bluebook interpreter performs on LuaJIT (using my virtual meta tracing approach) compared to Cog, which is a dedicatd Smalltalk VM optimized with whatever genious approaches over two decades (or even longer considering the long experience record by Elliot). This experiment continues in https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som, because I didn't want to modify the original Smalltalk image. I found that my naive LuaJIT based approach is about factor seven behind the highly optimized Cog/Spur, and further improvements would require similar optimization tricks as in the latter.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Oberon and Som you can also consider the following projects:

oberon-riscv - Oberon RISC-V port, based on Samuel Falvo's RISC-V compiler and Peter de Wachter's Project Norebo. Part of an academic project to evaluate Project Oberon on RISC-V.

MoarVM - A VM with adaptive optimization and JIT compilation, built for Rakudo

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are-we-fast-yet - Are We Fast Yet? Comparing Language Implementations with Objects, Closures, and Arrays

js-ts-csharp - A repository demonstrating functional techniques with C# 10 and the similarities between JavaScript, TypeScript, and C#.